Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Now is the age of anxiety.
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profound...
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
Art is born of humiliation.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.