To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.