"A democrat by conviction rather than by temperament, urging democracy as 'the only method consistent with human insti…"

"My "Poems" were written without a purpose, other than the expression of faiths and ideals strongly realized and emoti…"

"The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Cong…"

"They live indeed—the dead by whose example we are upward led."

"She was a great woman with the heart of a little child. Her works praise her; the millions of God's creatures whom sh…"

"The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through l…"

"Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges—they can neither age nor di…"

"Existence has little repose, and the cultivation and love of poetry require a detached spirit and a certain amount of…"

"Of all the arts poetry is the most intimate and personal."

"I love, and the world is mine!"