Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Loneliness doesn't come from being alone.It comes from seeing other people together.

Be thankful for what you have.Be thankful for what you wish you have.Be thankful for what you are capable of having.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls.

I don't feel that we have any choice but to see the Love and the Light that exists within every person.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.