When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

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

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.