Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

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.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.