The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.