 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
| It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. |
| Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. |
| April is the cruellest month. |
| Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. |
| People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. |
| Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. |
| I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. |
| And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. |
| My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. |
| Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. |
| This love is silent. |
| There is no method but to be very intelligent. |
| Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. |
| If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? |
| The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. |
| As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. |
| A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. |
| In my beginning is my end. |
| Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. |
