Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

Sheep with a nasty side.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.