Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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.
What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.