The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

Sincerity is technique.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."