One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

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

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

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.