A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets; for these a…

Image:that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

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…