Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

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.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

a culture is no better than its woods

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.