You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

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.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.