Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

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.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

Money pads the edges of things.