People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.