A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Now is the age of anxiety.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

a culture is no better than its woods