“Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.”

A sharp dismissal of mere fashionable taste · Introduction to Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1862 edition)

• Criticism
• Taste
• Vulgarity

“Every poet is a fool, but not every fool is a poet.”

A wry observation on the eccentricity and selectiveness of poetic sensibility · Prose remark, commonly attributed to George Darley

• Art
• Poetry