A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.