The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.