“There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.”

“If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings. ”

“There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.”

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

“The fortunate people in the world - the only really fortunate people in the world, in my mind - are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; and authors are perhaps the most important elements in its composition.(Churchill)”

“the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.”