As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

What counts is the cultural level

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

All great art is born of the metropolis.