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.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.