“Teddy looked at him directly for the first time.Are you a poet?' he asked.A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?'I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.' "- Teddy and Nicholson in "Teddy" (Nine Stories)”

“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”

“He's not a monster, he's a teddy bear," Eve said defiantly. "He's my teddy bear. I don't want you to hurt him. I want you to fix him.""There's nothing to fix," Danny said. "Paul's not broken.”

“Lord Teddie?" she said. "Will you stay for tea?""Rather!" said the carpet.”

“Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?'-'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.'-'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?'-'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.”

“That's a poet.''I thought you said it was a bo-at.''Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?''Why, a thing to sail on the water in.''Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry people over the sea....'...'A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.”