His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.
Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.
My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.