The artist is always beginning.

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.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

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

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.