Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.