To ask the hard question is simple.

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.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

We were put on this earth to make things.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.