When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

But to hint and hover...when we most wish to be free of them; what is this but cat-and-mouse play, blindman's bluff, a mere jugglery? Why must holy places be dark places?

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.