As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.