In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
The dark is light enough.
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.