I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.