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

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.

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

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

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 language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

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