We revel in the laxness of the path we take.

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.