Language Is The Armory Of

To Be Beloved Is All I Need, And Whom I Love, I Love Indeed.

I Wish Our Clever Young Poets Would Remember My Homely Definitions Of Prose And Poetry; That Is, Prose = Words In Their Best Order; - Poetry = The Best Words In The Best Order.

The Faults Of Great Authors Are Generally Excellences Carried To An Excess.

Where Virtue Is, Sensibility Is The Ornament And Becoming Attire Of Virtue. On Certain Occasions It May Almost Be Said To Become Virtue. But Sensibility And All The Amiable Qualities May Likewise Become, And Too Often Have Become, The Panders Of Vice And The Instruments Of Seduction.

Joy Rises In Me, Like A Summer's Morn.