Something needn't be large to be good.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at.

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.