Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everythi…

We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawd…

They darted down and rose up like a wave Or buzzed impetuously as before; One would have thought the corpse was held a slave To living by the life it bore!

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Devouring Famine, Plague, and War, Each able to undo mankind, Death's servile emissaries are; Nor to these alone confined, He hath at will More quaint and subt…