We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.