Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.