Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

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

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.