What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.

that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.