Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.