No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

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

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

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

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

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.

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.