It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

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.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.