On peut citer de mauvais vers, quand ils sont d'un grand poete.

Le succes, qui ne prouve pas toujours le merite, tient souvent davantage au choix du sujet qu'a son execution.

L'amour est, comme la medecine, seulement l'art d'aider a la nature.

J'ai ete etonne du plaisir qu'on eprouve en faisant le bien.

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…

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after …

Hughes began (The Hawk in the Rain, 1957; Lupercal, 1960) as an elemental poet of power; he was inchoate, but fruitfully aware both of the brute force of creat…