When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.