“England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I fo...”

“Theres no money in poetry, but theres no poetry in money, either”

“To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.”

“There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.”

“About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentlemans education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.”

“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”

“Most menit is my experienceare neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble me...”

“Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean”

“This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”