More From Samuel Butler
- "A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing."
- "Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
- "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
More In Poetry
- "As for how criticism of Keats’ poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I’ll leave that for others to decide."― Jane Campion
- "The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse."― Robert Morgan
- "Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."― Gaston Bachelard