Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.