Poems are never finished -- just abandoned.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

The purpose of psychology is to give us wholly novel ideas about the things that we know best.

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

We must always apologize for talking painting.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

A man who is of sound mind is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.