There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Omissions are not accidents.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.