 Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. |
| To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. |
| Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. |
| There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. |
| A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. |
| In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. |
| Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. |
| Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time. |
| A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure. |
| If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. |
| The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. |
| What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. |
| Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. |
| One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. |
| If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. |
