There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and vol….

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Thou….

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then..

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patri….

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession..

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flo….

The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or ….

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good..

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . .….

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon..

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?.

Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounde….

To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his….

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat..

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued..

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either..

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the g….