My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Literature is news that stays news.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

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

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.