Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.