One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.