A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.