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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."
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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Art
"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
Society
"I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his quarrel before that invisible Court of Arbitration with which all religion is concerned. Unless he thinks he is vitally, eternally, cosmically in the right, he is wrong to fire off a pocket-pistol."
War
"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
Man
"...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy."
Philosophy
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
Man
"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
Happiness
"It will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact."
Humor
"The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant."
Society
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