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

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.