The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.
It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
