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"Actors are the only honest hypocrites."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."


"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."


"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."


"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."


"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."


"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."


"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."


"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."


"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."


"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."


"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
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