Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.