I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

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

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.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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.