It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.