The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.