The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.