Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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.
