You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

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

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

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

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.