All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?