The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Love each other or perish.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.