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

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

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.

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

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

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.