← Painters would not then allow that any one outside their own order had a right to any opinion about painting. 🔊
← There was a sort of music in his prose, not indeed, arresting, but perhaps, I thought, haunting, and laden, perhaps, with meanings as deep as Mallarmé's own. 🔊
← I asked rather nervously if he didn't think Keats had more or less held his own against the drawbacks of time and place. 🔊
← "Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?" said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. 🔊
← I agreed that the act of creation was its own reward. 🔊
← He never sought to propitiate his fellow-writers, never bated a jot of his arrogance about his own work or of his contempt for theirs. 🔊
← When, in the autumn of '96, he brought out (at his own expense, this time) a third book, his last book, nobody said a word for or against it. 🔊
← But for that I mightn't have noticed my own name." 🔊