It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows dont understand is that you must get at a man through his own religio…

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against thre…

The poet:who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world.