The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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.
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
small talk comes from small bones
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.