You can't express emotion without giving information.

Style without content is bad style.

Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

A pharaoh’s profile, a Krishna’s grace, tail like a question mark.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur ‘Lord, I am not worthy’ And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.