The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight