The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.