If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

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

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

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

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.