A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even.

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

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

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

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.