Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

The imagination never dies.

A poet must sing for his own people.

Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.