I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

The darkness declares the glory of light.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.