Water Is The Soul Of The Earth.

A Culture Is No Better Than Its Woods

All Works Of Art Are Commissioned In The Sense That No Artist Can Create One By A Simple Act Of Will But Must Wait Until What He Believes To Be A Good Idea For A Work Comes To Him.

Most Poetry Is The Utterance Of A Man In Some State Of Passion, Love, Joy, Grief, Rage, Etc., And No Doubt This Is As It Should Be. But No Man Is Perpetually In A Passion And Those States In Which He Is Amused And Amusing, Detached And Irreverent, If Less Important, Are No Less Amusing. If There Were No Poets Who, Like Byron, Express These States, Poetry Would Lack Something.

Between Friends Differences In Taste Or Opinion Are Irritating In Direct Proportion To Their Triviality.

The Poet Marries The Language, And Out Of This Marriage The Poem Is Born.