It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
small talk comes from small bones
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
Wars are made to make debt.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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.