It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.