Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.