The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.