Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

I don't like to get in front of people.

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.