When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

The cliche is dead poetry.

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.