Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

That which is creative must create itself.

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave