"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
"There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all."
"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"True friends stab you in the front."
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."