"Only that is poetry which cleanses and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.”

“When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.”

“The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.”

“I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.”

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”

“There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.”

“To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”

“Life is greater than all art.”

“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”