Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.