At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither...
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should...
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest...
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have...
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and...
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.