I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters