It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.