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

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.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

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

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.

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