Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhen a girl feels that sheโs perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. Thatโs charm
F. Scott FitzgeraldPoetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
F. Scott FitzgeraldShe had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.
F. Scott Fitzgerald