The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

• There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
• Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
• Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
• The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.