It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.