"To hold a pen is to be at war."
"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."
"God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
"A broken heart will make a poet out of you."
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
"Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time."
"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."