All Good Work Is Done The Way

It Is True That Short Forms Of Poetry Have Been Cultivated In The Far East More Than In Modern Europe; But In All European Literature Short Forms Of Poetry Are To Be Found - Indeed Quite As Short As Anything In Japanese.

The Tea Ceremony Requires Years Of Training And Practice ... Yet The Whole Of This Art, As To Its Detail, Signifies No More Than The Making And Serving Of A Cup Of Tea. The Supremely Important Matter Is That The Act Be Performed In The Most Perfect, Most Polite, Most Graceful, Most Charming Manner Possible.

My Friends Are Much More Dangerous Than My Enemies. These Latter - With Infinite Subtlety - Spin Webs To Keep Me Out Of Places Where I Hate To Go, - And Tell Stories Of Me To People Whom It Would Be Vanity And Vexation To Meet; - And They Help Me So Much By Their Unconscious Aid That I Almost Love Them.

At Last, In 1611, Was Made, Under The Auspices Of King James, The Famous King James Version; And This Is The Great Literary Monument Of The English Language.

The Time Of Illusion, Then, Is The Beautiful Moment Of Passion; It Represents The Artistic Zone In Which The Poet Or Romance Writer Ought To Be Free To Do The Very Best That He Can.