Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.