Poet

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

There is no sin except stupidity.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Ayah Amerika tidak pernah terlihat di London. Dia melewati hidupnya sepenuhnya di Wall Street dan berkomunikasi dengan keluarganya sebulan sekali melalui telegram dalam sandi.

Persahabatan jauh lebih tragis daripada cinta. Itu berlangsung lebih lama.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.