"I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet."
"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."
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
"Here lies one whose name was writ on water."
"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all."
"Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits."