The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.