Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

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

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

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

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

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.