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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

A poet must sing for his own people.

The imagination never dies.

O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

Music waves eternal wands,
Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years.

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell!

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.