Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

To ask the hard question is simple.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

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.