THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

A poem is a small machine made of words.

Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.