If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.