Like all dreamers I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Ah! yes I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation a race a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Everything has been figured out except how to live.