Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
William Collins
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
William Collins
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
William Collins
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
William Collins
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
William Collins
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
William Collins
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
William Collins
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
William Collins
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
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Alexander Pope, William Blake, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, John Milton, John Gay
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