Literature is news that stays news.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

La gran literatura no es más que el lenguaje cargado de sentido hasta el grado máximo que sea posible.

Either move or be moved.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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 the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.