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

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.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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 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.