“And muse on nature with a poet's eye.”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“the soul of conversation is sympathy”

“Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.”

“The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.”

“Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”

“For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.”