I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.
Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.