Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

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.

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.