Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

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

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

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.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

The cliche is dead poetry.