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

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

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!

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.