When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?