Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

Don't be sad that it's over.
Be glad that you ever lived to see it.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.