音乐应该激励人心。这就是我写歌的原因。

心灵是自己的地方，在那里可以把地狱变成天堂，把天堂变成地狱。

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity—it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

我不让别人的意见定义我的价值。