The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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.