Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write$$$ while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

When someone between twenty and forty says$$$ apropos of a work of art$$$ 'I know what I like$$$' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.'

The glacier knocks in the cupboard$$$<br>The desert sighs in the bed$$$<br>And the crack in the teacup opens <br>A lane to the land of the dead.

All the rest is silence<br>On the other side of the wall;<br>And the silence ripeness$$$<br>And the ripeness all.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don't ever ask for the true story.