I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Every great change is simple.

America is a lunatic asylum.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.