There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

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

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

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

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