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

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

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

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.

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

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

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.