I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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

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

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.