We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know

Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them

When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return

No hero is immortal till he dies

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

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

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish