"For it is not metres, but a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.”

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know”

“My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.”

“We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.”

“If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.”

“For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.”

“The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.”

“It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”