Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty.

The ploughman ploughs, the fisherman dreams of fish; Aloft, the sailor, through a world of ropes Guides tangled meditations, feverish With memories of girls fo…

It is impossible for a poet to characterize his own work. From other people I gather that I am a gloomy poet, if not a tragic one.

I was invited to Romania at least once, but was warned that I should not be free to travel where I pleased in the country, but should be more or less confined …