"Poetry teaches the enormous force of a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.”

“What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.”

“Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.”

“I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.”

“For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.”

“If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.”

“But O, sick children of the world,Of all the many changing thingsIn dreary dancing past us whirled,To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,Words alone are certain good.”

“The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”