Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Art is nothing without form.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.