I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.