Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

You're in a mess, and in excess.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Crime is a product of social excess.

We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.