From The Creators:

"Dance. sometimes called the original art, is also the universal art, for man always carries it with him".

"Goethe's Faust theme, like that of Joyce's Ulysses, had been tested long before his time. The Original Dr. Faustus was an unsavory necromancer of German folklore who traveled widely, who died about 1540, and left a legacy of alchemy, magic, and astrology.

"Faustian - an unexcelled metaphor for the infinately aspiring always dissatisfied modern self.

"Just as Picasso, escaping the prison of perspective and the traditional cannons of beauty, abandoned the familiar arrangements of images in space,so Eliot abandoned the conventional narrative order of poetic images in time. The Romantics had sought to capture the beauty of the world in their feelings. But Eliot would use all available images and experience, learning and fragments of learning, to make an object of the poet's emotion. Young readers welcomed his expression of the sterile world their elders made for them".

"Pound earned his title as 'midwife of twentieth-century modernism' for he helped bring to public life the rebels against the Romantics, who by then were the literary establishment".

Said Confucius failed to explain the mystery of the universe later explaied by Taoism.

"The later triumphs of the American skyscraper, approriately for a nation of nations, would be called the International Style and invited architects from all over the world. Its first great monument, cleansed of classical and Gothic frippery, was Rockefeller Center (conceived in 1927 by Raymond Hood and a team of architects).