What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

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

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.