Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Either move or be moved.
Wars are made to make debt.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.