Charm in most men and nearly all women is a decoration.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A...
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at...
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet there would be...
Love is always being given where it is not required.
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
