Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
We are all here on earth to help others.
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.
And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
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