“The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it”

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate”

“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale”