About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.