Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

All time is unreedemable.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?