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.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

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.

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.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.