If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

You could play well and still lose.

Skills make you rich, not theories.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.