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There is one story and one story only.
One smile relieves a heart that grieves.
Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"
Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.
New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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.
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 perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.
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.
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.
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.
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.
Well, we've been lucky devils both And there is no need for a pledge or oath To bind our lovely friendship fast, By firmer stuff Close bound enough.
Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.