The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

The what is so much more important than how.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Artists are the antennae of the race.