Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
The day will happenwhether or not you get up
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by...
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
You have to fall in love with hanging around words.
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
If a man means his writing seriously he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of ba...