We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.
Love is being stupid together.
Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.