I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness..

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants..

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out..

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a bu….

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense..

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship..