America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

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