The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.