More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.