"Painting was called silent poetry and poetry..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.”

“There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.”

“The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.”

“The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.”

“Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.”

“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.”

“The language of the poem is the language of particulars.”

“The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.”

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