"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"

"In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, profess…"

"Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings Of those white elders; but, escaping, Left only Death's ironic scraping. No…"

"To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense — and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and ha…"

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."

"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Sprin…"

"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pa…"

"Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heave…"

"We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a…"

"A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light."