A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

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

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

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

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.