Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.