"In our time the curse is not that we cannot change but that we will not even try."Change
"The business of verse consists entirely in the variation of rhythm and melody."Music
"The bitterness of the divided self."Solitude
"We taste and feel and see the truth."Truth
"Work is prayer; prayer is work."Work
"To be wise you must first be humble."Wisdom
"The poet who is not himself a master of the tradition cannot add anything to it."Creativity
"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meanwhile within man is the soul of the whole."Philosophy
"Through the time of darkness with eyes closed fast—in your arms I have found my eternal peace."Love
"The moving accident is not my trade; building the perfect line."Art
"Pleasure and pain are like light and darkness; they follow each other, and neither can exist alone."Life
"I carry the sun in my heart."Hope
"The public imagination is the platform from which all else springs."Leadership
"The nights are longest where the sun shines least."Perseverance
"All things long to return to their proper place in the order of nature."Nature
"The hour of change must ever be a critical hour."Change
"To those who insist that art is disengaged and autonomous, I would say that art is not life, but life is art."Art