Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

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

all I loved, I loved alone.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Invisible things are the only realities.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

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

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.