It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

Every great change is simple.

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.