The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.