We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!
Her memory's your love. You want no other.
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.