“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.”

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul”