“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“Nature: it might be the magical key to unlock a locked imagination.”

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”

“A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.”

“I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.”