The Earnings Of A Poet

What Has A Writer To Be Bombastic About? Whatever Good A Man May Write Is The Consequence Of Accident, Luck, Or Surprise, And Nobody Is More Surprised Than An Honest Writer When He Makes A Good Phrase Or Says Something Truthful.

The Bad Poet Is A Toady Mimicking Nature.

I Have No Confidence In A Man Whose Faults You Cannot See.

The Americans Have Always Been Food, Sex, And Spirit Revivalists.

A Man Who Can Be Entertaining For A Full Day Will Be In His Grave By Night-fall.