Quotes from The Poet's Diary — Alfred Austin
1835–1913 England
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English maidens are, in certain respects, to Italian maidens as moonlight unto sunlight and as water unto wine.
The Poet's Diary (1904)
He was an Englishman of Englishmen, of the old school of charming manners, flavoured by occasional downrightness of speech.
The Poet's Diary (1904)
A little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing, but it is not dangerous to the imagination. Knowledge is to the imagination what fuel is to flame. A little feeds it; a great deal extinguishes it.
The Poet's Diary (1904)
[W]henever one wants to cite something wise and true, one has to go either to the ancients or to the eighteenth century for it.
The Poet's Diary (1904)
[T]he Caesars of this world act sagaciously, perhaps, in making as much of their purple as possible. The world is largely governed by tailors and upholsterers.
The Poet's Diary (1904)
One can put up with, indeed more than put up with, a certain amount of technical carelessness in Poetry, provided it be in other respects of a very high order, as not unoften, for instance, in Shakespeare and Byron. But similar blemishes in a picture would be all but fatal to it in the estimation of connoisseurs, since it would be the first thing that struck them in it.
The Poet's Diary (1904)