Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Death is the room that is always empty.