All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

The best revenge is to live well.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.