A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Humankind can't stand too much reality.

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

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.