“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.