It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Either move or be moved.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

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

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.