I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.