“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
“In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
“The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.”
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.”
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.”
“When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.”
“In my beginning is my end.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
“Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.”
“All cases are unique and very similar to others.”
“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.”
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
“Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.”
“A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.”
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
“Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.”
“People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.”
“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.”
“I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.”
“Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.”
“The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.”