When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.