Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

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

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-- if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?