Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Poetry and Poets

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Trials

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.