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.

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

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

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.