Water is the soul of the Earth.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
There’s always another story. There’s more than meets the eye.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn’t a word that wasn’t essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
You owe it to all of us to get on with what you’re good at.
I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
Love each other or perish.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.