Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.