I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.