Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

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

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

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

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

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

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.