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.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

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

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

The what is so much more important than how.