The only history that matters is the history we know.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.