Who said “In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.”?

“Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.”

“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.”

“Culture is one thing and varnish is another.”

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

“In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.”