One of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.. American physician poet professor lecturer and author
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. Go to Quote / Comment
Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. Go to Quote / Comment
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them. Go to Quote / Comment
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Go to Quote / Comment
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. Go to Quote / Comment