Artists are the antennae of the race.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

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.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.