All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

The world belongs to the discontented.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.