Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

a culture is no better than its woods

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.