There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

The only history that matters is the history we know.