"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."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
"Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit"
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."