Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.