Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.