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

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.