"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."

"A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry."

"I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."

"When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else."