The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.