To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Past art is subject to change.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Art is the escape from personality.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.