“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

“Language is fossil Poetry.”