None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)