A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.