Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

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