Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.