When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.