 Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. |
| The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. |
| Poetry is the deification of reality. |
| The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. |
| A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. |
| I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. |
| The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. |
| I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. |
| I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. |
| Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. |
| I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. |
| Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. |
| The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
| I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. |
| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. |
| I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. |
