Technique is the test of sincerity.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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.

Either move or be moved.

And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.