Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

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.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.