O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Art is the escape from personality.

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.