Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
Speech isn't for agony.
Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.