The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Glance is the enemy of vision.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.