The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness |
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. |
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. |
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. |
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. |
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock |
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas |
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner |
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published |
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning |
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. |
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. |
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. |
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it |
There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way. |