I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he appr…

Besides, time, which despoils castles, enriches verses . . . Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, a la chandelle, Assise aupres du feu, devidant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous emerveillant: 'Ronsard me c…