Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow."

"Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets."

"In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded. . . . He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance."

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

"To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him."