I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.