"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of universal salvation."

"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced an…"

"The greatest poem is the one that has yet to be written."

"Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you."

"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."