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.

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

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom