Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize