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.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

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.

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.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

small talk comes from small bones

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass