Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.