“The Village used to have the spirit of Bohemia, gaiety, sadness, beauty, poetry. Now it's just a geographical location.”

Mourning the loss of a living artistic community · Quoted remark on Greenwich Village

• Beauty
• Memory
• Poetry

“Why continually shout the obvious in an attempt to belittle any general form of expression?”

Challenging criticism that mistakes commonplace faults for decisive arguments · Correspondence, A Reply to A. C. H., Poetry, 1919

• Art
• Truth

“Among the best of these latter people I have found a genuineness, an unassuming candor, a rough sense of humor, and an inquisitive intelligence.”

Praising unpretentious curiosity and honest human warmth · Letter to Burton Rascoe, New York Tribune, 1922

• Friendship
• Truth