The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.