It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Love works miracles in stillness.