Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Reality is a sliding door.