It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.