When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.