A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

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

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

We can't tell our life from our wish

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.