Glance is the enemy of vision.

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

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

And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.