All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Always be a little unexpected.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.