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.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.