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

“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

“Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”

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