I think an alliance with Stalin’s Russia is rotten.
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d’Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot ‘handle the class.’ Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.