April is the cruellest month.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.