It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Life is first boredom, then fear.
You can't put off being young until you retire.
I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.