There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

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.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.