And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.