If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

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

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.