Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned w…

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

World-mothering air, air wild, Wound with thee, in thee isled, Fold home, fast fold thy child.

It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all ni…

You know what my favourite quotation is?:It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, 'I am myne owene woman, wel at ese.'