Date of birth: 1885-10-30
Date of death: 1972-11-01
Quotes number: 52
Nationality: American
Profession: Poet
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
