I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.