I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the…

IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING NONCHALANCE IS GOOD, AND really, it is not the business of the gods to bake clay pots. They did not do it in this…

Whatever it is, it’s a passion – a benign dementia that should be engulfing America, fed in a way the opposite of the way in which the Minotaur was fed….

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a…

Art is exact perception: If the outcome is deception Then I think the fault must lie Partly with the critic’s eye, And no man who’s done his part Need apologize…

is an enchanted thing     like the glaze on a katydid-wing         subdivided by sun         till the nettings are legion. Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti; like the apteryx-awl     as a beak, or the…

My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow’s grave nor the glass flowers at Harvard. Self reliant like the cat — that…

That silence is best: that action and re- Action are equal: that control, discipline, and Liberation are bywords when spoken by an appraiser, that the     Accidental sometimes achieves perfection, loath…

“Attack is more piquant than concord,” but when     You tell me frankly that you would like to feel       My flesh beneath your feet,         I’m all abroad; I can but put…

You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than     an asset – that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are       justified in…

I like the mule: his sides are thin. He takes his ease in no man’s inn. When contrarieties are thick About his mind’s eye, he will kick; Men bewail their…

has not altered;—     a place as kind as it is green,     the greenest place I’ve never seen. Every name is a tune. Denunciations do not affect       the culprit; nor blows,…