What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.

Edmund Cooper

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

George Ade

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world

George Bernard Shaw

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Charlotte Bronte

That what is true of business and politics is gloriously true of the professions, the arts and crafts, the sciences, the sports. That the best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

Lincoln Steffens

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

Marisa Tomei

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Blake Morrison

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Howard Nemerov