The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.
Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.