I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.