The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

The what is so much more important than how.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

All great art is born of the metropolis.