I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

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.

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.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.