The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

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.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.