Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

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

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 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.

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