Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.