Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.