It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.