Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Explore your higher latitudes . . . be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, open new channels, not of trade but of thought.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.