Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.