For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.