I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.