Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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