The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.