Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

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.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it