And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

To define is to limit.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.