"Not to have the instinct to command implies a lack of the instinct to obey. The two aptitudes are but different facets of one jewel: the sense of order."

—Max Beerbohm, Servants

Fairfield Porter on—what else?—Art, or rather, having a certain artistic point of view:

"Wholeness is as close to you as yourself and your immediate surroundings. You need not pursue it, you have only to accept it. What is real and what is alive is concrete and singular. In a statement of esthetic belief  Pasternak said, "'Poetry is in the grass.'"