Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 15, 1890 Death: September 18, 1980
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before tha….
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet..
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and….
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pull….
I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness..
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons..
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore..
Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like ….
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can'….
Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ withou….
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that..
There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted ….
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined..
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work ….
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child..
It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write an….
Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I h….
There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and….
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroye….
With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we….
Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of….