To Read Between The Lines Was Easier

That Accurst Autobiographic Form Which Puts A Premium On The Loose, The Improvised, The Cheap, And The Easy.

Art Requires, Above All Things, A Suppression Of Self, A Subordination Of One's Self To An Idea.

The Face Of Nature And Civilization In This Our Country Is To A Certain Point A Very Sufficient Literary Field. But It Will Yield Its Secrets Only To A Really Grasping Imagination. To Write Well And Worthily Of American Things One Need Even More Than Elsewhere To Be A Master.

Ideas Are, In Truth, Force.

We Must For Dear Life Make Our Own Counter-realities.