The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.