Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

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.