A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as...

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as...

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done...

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of...

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight,...

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight,...

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps...

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps...

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is...

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is...

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no...

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no...

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the...

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the...

Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if...

Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if...

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples...

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples...

Love is a universal migraine A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason.

Love is a universal migraine A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as...

What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as...

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of...

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of...

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I...

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...