“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
