Realism is a corruption of reality.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Anything is beautiful if you say it is.

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.