I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.