Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.