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

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

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.

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.

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

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.

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