I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

A light here required a shadow there.