Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

- Edward Dowden

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are n…

- Edward Dowden

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

- Edward Dowden

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever …

- Edward Dowden