The cliche is dead poetry.

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.

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

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.