Quotes

“Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon all attachment to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga.

On the other hand, he who controls the senses by the mind and engages his active organs in works of devotion, without attachment, is by far superior.”

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar one often finds a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist, often, a remarkable man.”

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.”

“It is only by Art, and especially by Poetry, that the imagination is regulated. Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.”

“The work of criticism is superfluous unless it is itself a work of art as independent of the work it criticizes as that is independent of the materials that went into it.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments… but rather by the strength we show when, and if we’re ever given a second chance.”

“To be heard is to be held.”

“In the real dark night of the soul it is always 3 o’clock in the morning, day after day.”

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”