Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

I do not know who sings my songs / Before they are sung by me.

All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is.