There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.