“There was nothing overwhelming to me in Whitman's face, but I liked it at once for its healthy manliness.”

First impression of Whitman as an ideal labourer · Conversations with Walt Whitman / early memoir of first visit

• America
• Appearance
• Poets

“To make rhymeless lines read like a poem is the most laborious task a songsmith can set himself.”

Defending technical difficulty as artistic choice · Instead of a Preface, My Rubaiyat

• Craft
• Poetry
• Writing

“These commercial travellers of art will never know the painter's pure delight, the contemplation of life, the aspiration to perfection, the lifting of beauty out of the dead pigment.”

Contrasting commerce with contemplative craft · The Whistler Book

• Art
• Beauty
• Commerce