“An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.”

“Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.”

“Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregn...”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes H...”

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

“The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully.”

“By daily dying, I have come to be.”