It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

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.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.