Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...
The picture must all come out of the artist’s inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.