在文学中，就像在生活中，一切都是相连的。

居处和行动都无需不必要的思虑，不私藏分别是非美恶的观念，四海之内共享利益，这才是真的喜悦；人人都得到所需物资的保障，社会就安宁。

对认可的渴望，灵魂中的激情部分，不能仅通过经济活动来满足。

I don't want to paint people who are just sitting there like models. I want to paint the actual person.

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.