To Extract Beauty From One's Own Milieu

Literature Has Nothing To Do With Usefulness; The Most Useful Place In Any House Is The Toilet.

What Well-bred Woman Would Refuse Her Heart To A Man Who Had Just Saved Her Life? Not One; And Gratitude Is A Short Cut Which Speedily Leads To Love.

I Was Born To Travel And Write Verse.

You Do Not Become A Critic Until It Has Been Completely Established To Your Own Satisfaction That You Cannot Be A Poet.

Art Is Beauty, The Perpetual Invention Of Detail, The Choice Of Words, The Exquisite Care Of Execution.