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

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

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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of...

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of...

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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that...

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

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

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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of...

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...

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.

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.

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

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...

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you...

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you...

I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice...

I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice...

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced...

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced...