No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.