Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Speech isn't for agony.