
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
As quoted in A History of Warfare (1968) by Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein: "Sir Winston Churchill once told me of a reply made by the Duke of Wellington, in his last years, when a friend asked him: "If you had your life over again, is there any way in which you could have done better?" The old Duke replied: "Yes, I should have given more praise."
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
“Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”
Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica.
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
“So, march away; and let due praise be given
Neither to fate nor fortune, but to Heaven.”
Ferneze, Act V
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
“The young man should be praised, honored, and made immortal.”
Laudandum adulescentem, ornandum, tollendum.
Ad Familiares 11.20.1; the reference is to Octavian, with tollendum carrying the implication of the youth's being slain and thus "made immortal".
Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry
Interviewed in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$FUVRY4DIEVBSTQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/arts/2003/04/27/bojac27.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/04/27/bomain.html
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XIII: The Beginning and the End; 3. The Supreme Moment and After (p. 164)
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”
Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève (30 October 1914)