Every great change is simple.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.