Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.
Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.