A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

Colours are what drive me most strongly.