"I believe in you, my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other."

"I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the U…"

"A man is not a whole man without a woman... and a woman is not a whole woman without a man."

"I am a free man, and I shall always be a free man."

"The great poet digests the experience of the world and returns it in the form of a song."