Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
To be free is often to be lonely.
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.