The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.