All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.