small talk comes from small bones

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

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.