Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

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

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.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.