"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain."

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

"Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man."

"Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work."