Thomas Hardy

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.