Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.