`How is your trade, Aquarius, / This frosty night?' / `Complaints is many and various / And my feet are cold,' says Aquarius. |
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. |
A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good. |
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. |
Across two counties he can hear / And catch your words before you speak. / The woodlouse or the maggot's weak / Clamour rings in his sad ear, / And noise so slight it would surpass / Credence. |
Across two counties he can hear / And catch your words before you speak. / The woodlouse or the maggot's weak / Clamour rings in his sad ear, / And noise so slight it would surpass / Credence. |
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. |
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples. |
As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever. |
Bullfight critics row on row crowd the enormous plaza de toros, but only one is there who knows, and he's the one who fights the bull. |
Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering. |
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman. |
I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then. |
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. |
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. |