Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.