You are always new to me.
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
That which is creative must create itself.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.