"Whenas in perfume Julia went, Then, then, how sweet was the intent Of that inexorable scent."

"I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You …"

"Victor Hugo was a passionate observer, partial to death scenes. He had an appetite for extinction, a man sure to be o…"

"It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which …"

"No matter what kind of verse a woman writes, nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess."

"The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it d…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"

"Many argue that the is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and s…"

"Hallie Eustace Miles ... The daughter of the of , Hallie Killick married the sportsman and writer in 1906. Together w…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"