... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.