To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Music is what feelings sound like.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.