Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.

If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.