But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Life cracked like ice!

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.