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

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

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

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.

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.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.