A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.