William Collins Quotes

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country`s wishes blest!

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don`t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It`s like do-it-yourself dentistry.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader`s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity`s self be dead.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can`t see what`s underneath.

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.