“I seek beauty, not character. For me portraiture and statuary are completely opposed to each other.”

"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)

In an interview with John M. MacGregor, later published in 'Raw Vision 7' (Summer 1993)
posthumous

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), IX : Faith, Hope, and Charity
Context: Consciousness, the craving for more, more, always more, hunger of eternity and thirst of infinity, appetite for God — these are never satisfied. Each consciousness seeks to be itself and all other consciousnesses without ceasing to be itself; it seeks to be God. And matter, unconsciousness, tends to be less and less, tends to be nothing, its thirst being a thirst for repose. Spirit says: I wish to be! and matter answers: I wish not to be!

Source: The Line of Beauty

Source: The State — Its Historic Role (1897), X
Context: Throughout the history of our civilization, two traditions, two opposing tendencies have confronted each other: the Roman and the Popular; the imperial and the federalist; the authoritarian and the libertarian. And this is so, once more, on the eve of the social revolution.
Between these two currents, always manifesting themselves, always at grips with each other — the popular trend and that which thirsts for political and religious domination — we have made our choice.
We seek to recapture the spirit which drove people in the twelfth century to organise themselves on the basis of free agreement and individual initiative as well as of the free federation of the interested parties. And we are quite prepared to leave the others to cling to the imperial, the Roman and canonical tradition.

"The spirit of disobedience: an invitation to resistance"

Effects.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)