When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.