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.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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

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.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

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

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.