Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.