“Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.”

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

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

The what is so much more important than how.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

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

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Either move or be moved.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.

The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.