Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.