I've got libraries in my blood.
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
...you look at me like an emergency
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
To live is to be haunted.
Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
The germ of creation lies in violence.
A poem should not mean But be.
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
