Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

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