If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
