A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Sincerity is technique.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

To be free is often to be lonely.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.