Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.