One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.