Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke