I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
Ketika Kristus berkata, 'Maafkan musuhmu,' itu bukan demi musuh, tetapi demi dirinya sendiri bahwa dia mengatakan demikian, dan karena cinta lebih indah dari pada kebencian.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.