In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

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

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.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!