"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home."

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."

"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"It is a timeless truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."