What thou lovest well remains.

small talk comes from small bones

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.