To become what you are not, behave as you do not.

Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

There will be time to murder and create.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.