Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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.

Only through time time is conquered

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.