Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Envy is an insult to oneself.