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

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.