“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.”

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”

“If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana...and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation.”

“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good”

“Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria”

“Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends,And we have friends and no butlers.(excerpt from 'The Garrett')”

“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.”