I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.