Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.