Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.