Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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