Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.