Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Either move or be moved.