Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.
For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.
My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.