All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.