See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.