The artist is always beginning.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

Every great change is simple.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.