I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.