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.
From W. H. Auden
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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