Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

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

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

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