Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. |
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. |
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. |
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. |
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. |
Literature is news that stays news. |
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. |
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. |
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. |
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. |
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. |
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. |
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. |
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. |
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval. |
All great art is born of the metropolis. |
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. |
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. |
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. |
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. |