"The rhyme of the poetModulates the king's..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.”

“There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.”

“Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”

“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.”

“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.”

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”

“The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”