Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

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

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.