I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.