I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Wars are made to make debt.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.