A shilling life will give you all the facts.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.