The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

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.

The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

He took her hand from her head and held it in his. "Your beauty could make a rose blush." "Are you... drunk?

If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

The president can't have a conflict of interest.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.