The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.