A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.