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“I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford Book of English Verse, Introduction

“And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes—reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford Book of English Verse, Introduction

“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

sic <br class="br"> On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913–1914 http://www.bartleby.com/190/ <br class="br">Often misattributed, e.g. to Hemingway, Faulkner, and others, or shortened to 'Kill your darlings.' source http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/should-you-kill-your-babies

“Only the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Poem The Splendid Spur http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-splendid-spur/

“I could not find the way to God;
There were too many flaming suns
For signposts, and the fearful road
Led over wastes where millions
Of tangled comets hissed and burned—
I was bewildered and I turned.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Poem The White Moth http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-white-moth/

“The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Oxford Book of English Verse, Introduction

“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Poem Ode upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon, in Poems and Ballads, 1896