The world is all outside, it has no inside.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold