The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.