"Poets should be law-givers; that is, the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”

“Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.”

“I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.”

“After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

“When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.”