“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.”

“...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyones orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”