I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.