Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Facts are stupid things.
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.