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

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

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

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

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