No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.

Literature is news that stays news.

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

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

The artist is always beginning.