in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.