Glance is the enemy of vision.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.