“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”

“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.”

“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”

“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”