Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.