It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

Youth is stranger than fiction.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.