Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are embarked on; and along with that will go the spiritual discoveries and, I feel, the inexhaustible wonder that one feels, that opens more and more the more you know. It's simply that this increasing knowledge constantly enlarges your kingdom and the capacity for admiring and loving the universe.

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.