Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of …

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…

No original Gauguins were to be seen in Australia, for post-impressionism was officially thought to be the vulgar effusion of five-thumbed lunatics.

The author of Amelia, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in sec…