in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
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.
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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
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In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
All pity is self-pity.
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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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