You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.