Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.