Nothing Is More Vain Than To Seek

It Is Necessary That The Object That The Artist Is Shaping, Whether It Be A Vase Of Clay Or A Fishing Boat, Be Significant Of Something Other Than Itself. This Object Must Be A Sign As Well As An Object; A Meaning Must Animate It, And Make It Say More Than It Is.

Power Without Authority Is Tyranny.

In Loving Things And The Being In Them Man Should Rather Draw Things Up To The Human Level Than Reduce Humanity To Their Measure.

Art And Poetry Cannot Do Without One Another. Yet The Two Words Are Far From Being Synonymous. By Art I Mean The Creative Or Producing, Work-making Activity Of The Human Mind. By Poetry I Mean, Not The Particular Art Which Consists In Writing Verses, But A Process Both More General And More Primary: That Intercommunication Between The Inner Being Of Things And The Inner Being Of The Human Self Which Is A Kind Of Divination (as Was Realized In Ancient Times; The Latin Vates Was Both A Poet And A Diviner). Poetry, In This Sense, Is The Secret Life Of Each And All Of The Arts.

Poetry Proceeds From The Totality Of Man, Sense, Imagination, Intellect, Love, Desire, Instinct, Blood And Spirit Together.