Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

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.

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.

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.

SLAMMED DOORS, Path of Discouragement. OPEN DOORS, Path of change. Do something different.

I hate sadness. Anything is better than sadness. Even feeling nothing.

It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not having achieved it.

Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

The humble one is the better one.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.