A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.