"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry”

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.”

“No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.”

“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.