Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.