Who said “Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else…”?

“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.”

“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.”

“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”

“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”

“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”

“If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.”

“To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense — and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) — but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. ... Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.”

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”