Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. – Ellen Goodman