The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.