Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.