Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don’t know that men can do what women can do. That’s absolutely crucial. We can’t go on doing two jobs.
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.
This joy you feel is life.
Don’t write about what you don’t know even if you don’t know it.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.