To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.