My poems mean what people take them to mean.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.