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

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

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.

Every great change is simple.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Literature is news that stays news.