We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.