Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

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.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.