The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Music is love in search of a word.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Music is love searching for a word.

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

Words of wisdom are easier said when shown, otherwise, they are incomprehensible.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.