To Be A Poet Is A Condition

A Well-chosen Anthology Is A Complete Dispensary Of Medicine For The More Common Mental Disorders, And May Be Used As Much For Prevention As Cure.

Any Honest Housewife Would Sort Them Out,/ Having A Nose For Fish, An Eye For Apples.

To Recommend A Monarchy On Account Of The Prosperity It Gives The Provinces Seems To Me Like Recommending That A Man Should Have Liberty To Treat His Children As Slaves, If At The Same Time He Treats His Slaves With Reasonable Consideration.

The Art Of Poetry Consists In Taking The Poem Through Draft After Draft, Without Losing Its Inspirational Magic: He Removes Everything Irrelevant Or Distracting, And Tightens Up What Is Left. Lazy Poets Never Carry Their Early Drafts Far Enough: Some Even Believe That Virtue Lies In The Original Doodle Scrawled On The Back Of An Envelope.

One Gets To The Heart Of The Matter By A Series Of Experiences In The Same Pattern, But In Different Colors.