Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement