"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."

"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."

"poetry in some form is necessary to all—save, perhaps, to those who are content to live upon bread alone."

"I love, and the world is mine!"