There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
We live ruins amid ruins.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
It is a luxury to be understood.
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.