Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh pe…

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in th…

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is t…

The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.