There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.