I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.