The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.