"The finest poems of the world have..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.”

“Adult males are what their moms designed them.”

“Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.”

“He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.”

“If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.”

“I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.”

“Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!”