“We must love one another or die”

“If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.”

“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.”

“To make one, there must be two.”

“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”

“The friends who met here and embraced are gone,Each to his own mistake;”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good for...”

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

“Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!”

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”

“Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.”