Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

How terrible a thing time is.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

What an extraordinary world it is.

This diamond has so many carats its almost a turnip.

False friendship like the ivy decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.

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

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Poets are born, not paid.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.