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

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

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

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.