Superfluity of lecturing causes ischial bursitis. Boswell's Life . I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. The Sun Dial .
Poetry is the parent of superstition.
The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge , 1667. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. All poets are mad. Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense. Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.