The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets

The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.

The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.