Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

Man has created death.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.