The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

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

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

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.