To Educate is to Free.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.