It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.

“Whatever is, is not,” is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.

Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.

The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression

'Verse libertines' pioneered the work to get rid of obstacles between that which hampered the poet and separated him from his audience, less a matter of rules and formulae , more a return of spirit.