The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

I stand in awe of my body.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.