Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers…but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.