Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.

The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.