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.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

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.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Poetry makes nothing happen.