But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.

What the war did to the dreamers.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.