Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.