Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

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

Let all your thinks be thanks.