Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

You have to know what you want to get it.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.