It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Either move or be moved.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

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

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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