To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

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

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

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.

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

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

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.