“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
