small talk comes from small bones
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.