The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

The cliche is dead poetry.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.