Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.