It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

The work of creation is never without travail.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

In the mountains, there you feel free.