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

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

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

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

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

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.