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To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Prose = words in their best order;—poetry = the best words in the best order.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

A sadder and a wiser man,

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,

What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,

Summum bonum.

’Ipse dixit.’ ‘Ipse’ autem erat Pyhagoras.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

And ther he saugh, with ful avysement

And she was fayr as is the rose in May.

Mordre wol out; that se we day by day.

And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,

And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never led to good intention’s goal.

What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

What I tell you three times is true.

It’s my own invention. the White Knight