“And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.”

“How very bright this empire of stars, he mused. Which poet had said that?”

“I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet”

“I therefore believe that these and many other movements of our time are in the great long picture of our civilizations related to the loss of an earlier organization of human natures. They are attempts to return to what is no longer there, like poets to their inexistent Muses, and as such they are characteristic of these transitional millennia in which we are imbedded.”

“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”

“There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”

“Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.”

“For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.”

“A lyricist must be a poet by nature.”

“Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.”