“...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...”
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
“The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glassBut my alchemy has transmuted glass into flintPharaohs of today have stalked me in vain”
“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...”
“It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.”
“Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.”