A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.