It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.