It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

The cheese and wine party has the form of friendship without the warmth and devotion. It is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en mass, or for making overtures towards more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.