Art is the signature of man.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.