Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.