It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.