A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.