← The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title at all. 🔊
← France had had only one poet—Villon; "and two thirds of Villon were sheer journalism." 🔊
← I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊
← To the painters he was respectful, even humble; but for the poets and prosaists of The Yellow Book and later of The Savoy he had never a word but of scorn. 🔊
← This little place—Restaurant du Vingtième Siècle, to give it its full title—had been discovered in '96 by the poets and prosaists, but had now been more or less abandoned in favor of some later find. 🔊
← Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentieth senchri rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames"—a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im! 🔊
← "Round and round the shutter'd Square"—that line came back to me on my lonely beat, and with it the whole stanza, ringing in my brain and bearing in on me how tragically different from the happy scene imagined by him was the poet's actual experience of that prince in whom of all princes we should put not our trust! 🔊
← Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" 🔊