Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Only through time time is conquered

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.