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Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done.

Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gamble song, and Whistle through your comb.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.