God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.