Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.