Properly, We Should Read For Power.

Fundamental Accuracy Of Statement Is The One Sole Morality Of Writing.

Somebody Said That I Am The Last American Living The Tragedy Of Europe.

Colloquial Poetry Is To The Real Art As The Barber's Wax Dummy Is To Sculpture.

Good Art However 'immoral' Is Wholly A Thing Of Virtue. Good Art Can Not Be Immoral. By Good Art I Mean Art That Bears True Witness, I Mean The Art That Is Most Precise.

Poetry Is A Sort Of Inspired Mathematics, Which Gives Us Equations, Not For Abstract Figures, Triangles, Squares, And The Like, But For The Human Emotions. If One Has A Mind Which Inclines To Magic Rather Than Science, One Will Prefer To Speak Of These Equations As Spells Or Incantations; It Sounds More Arcane, Mysterious, Recondite.