"A man is only a mature boy. The theatre widens as he ascends."

"The certainties of one age are the problems of the next."

"Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage."

"Between the image of the Imagist and the 'symbol' of the Symbolists there is a difference only of precision'"

"There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-ag…"

"… I am not, and never have been, a Soviet agent."

"Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage."