The artist is always beginning.

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

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.