A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969 (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1995) - ISBN: 9780226306247