There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.