"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

"....it is better to succeed with success than failure."

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."

"In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself."