The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.