If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

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

There is no truth. Only points of view.

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

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

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

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