Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry