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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.


I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.




I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.


If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.

No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader.


Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.


Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.


The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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