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.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Every great change is simple.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

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