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

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

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

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.