The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

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.

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

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

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