What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true..

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published..

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth liv….

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own..

I dabbled in verse and it became my life.

Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be di….

The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code of mysteries And the wink….

My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life o….

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts..

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artist….

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers..

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned..

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men..

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman..

Malice is only another name for mediocrity..

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom..