Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
History develops, art stands still.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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