A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.