Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.
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.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.