Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.