The only artists who are personally delightful are bad artists.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

A great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures.
Inferior poets are absolutely delightful.
The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look.

A bad poet lives the life he cannot write.
A good poet writes the poetry he dare not realise.