We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.