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 professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.