Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.