Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

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.