I Consider Criticism Merely A Preliminary Excitement,

Better Mendacities Than The Classics In Paraphrase! Some Quick To Arm, Some For Adventure, Some From Fear Of Weakness, Some From Fear Of Censure, Some For Love Of Slaughter, In Imagination, Learning Later . . . Some In Fear, Learning Love Of Slaughter; Died Some, Pro Patria, Non "dulce" Non "et Decor" . Walked Eye-deep In Hell Believing In Old Men's Lies, The Unbelieving Came Home, Home To A Lie.

As For Literature It Gives No Man A Sinecure. And No One Knows, At Sight, A Masterpiece. And Give Up Verse, My Boy, There's Nothing In It.

The Phase Of The Usury System Which We Are Trying To Analyze Is More Or Less Patterson's Perception That The Bank Of England Could Have Benefit Of All The Interest On All The Money That It Creates Out Of Nothing. ... Now The American Citizen Can, Of Course, Appeal To His Constitution, Which States That Congress Shall Have Power To Coin Money Or Regulate The Value Thereof And Of Foreign Coin. Such Appeal Is Perhaps Quixotic.

And In The Mean Time My Songs Will Travel, And The Devirginated Young Ladies Will Enjoy Them When They Have Got Over The Strangeness

I Could I Trust Starve Like A Gentleman. It's Listed As Part Of The Poetic Training, You Know.