The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

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

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.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

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

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.