A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately but write from recollection and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
