There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.