Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.