The Pride Of The Artisan In His

To Be An American Is Of Itself Almost A Moral Condition, An Education, And A Career.

The Degree In Which A Poet's Imagination Dominates Reality Is, In The End, The Exact Measure Of His Importance And Dignity.

If Artists And Poets Are Unhappy, It Is After All Because Happiness Does Not Interest Them.

Men Have Always Been The Victims Of Trifles, But When They Were Uncomfortable And Passionate, And In Constant Danger, They Hardly Had Time To Notice What The Daily Texture Of Their Thoughts Was In Their Calm Intervals, Whereas With Us The Intervals Are All.

Perhaps The Only True Dignity Of Man Is His Capacity To Despise Himself.