One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

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

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.

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

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.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.