“The poet who does not truly sing himself is like Eutychus, the painter in the epigram, who begat twenty sons and never got a single likeness, even among his children.”

Impersonal verse dismissed as a family without faces · Essay, The Personal Note

• Individuality
• Poetry
• Poets

“All is taken from my own experience; not a rule is laid down which I have not practically tested.”

Field practice offered as the only warrant for advice · Preface, The Witchery of Archery

• Craft
• Experience
• Practice

“A novel that will bear the sunlight and the winds and the bird-songs may be put down as a thoroughly good one.”

Outdoor reading proposed as a test of literary worth · Essay, Tangle-Leaf Papers, in By-Ways and Bird Notes

• Fiction
• Nature
• Taste