Silence Is The Best Response To A

I Work With Patience, Which Is Almost Power.

The English Have A Scornful Insular Way Of Calling The French Light.

Souls Are Dangerous Things To Carry Straight Through All The Spilt Saltpetre Of This World.

The Critics Could Never Mortify Me Out Of Heart - Because I Love Poetry For Its Own Sake, - And, Tho' With No Stoicism And Some Ambition, Care More For My Poems Than For My Poetic Reputation.

New Angel Mine, Unhoped For In The World!