"At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too."

"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."

"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."

"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."