A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.