Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

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

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.