Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

My only politics have been friendship.

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.