“I find I cannot exist without Poetry”

“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. ”

“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”

“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.”

“There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.”

“Dialogue cannot exist without humility.”

“Duty cannot exist without faith.”

“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”

“There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.”