Edmund Clarence Stedman

“Thou art the rock of my salvation: do I not fly unto thee in all my troubles?”

“Poetry is the most concrete of the arts, and it is also the most magical.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul of fire, a heart of steel, and a mind of crystal.”

“The artist must be a man of the world, and yet he must not be of the world.”

“He who would be a great poet must first be a great man.”

“The test of a poet is the power to take the passing event and make it eternal.”

“A brotherhood of venerable trees.”

“Art, in its highest sense, is a representation of the ideal.”

“America, half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.”

“But the world is awake, and the skies are aglow; And the river flows on, and the sea-tides ebb and flow.”

“The true use of Shakespeare, or of any other book, is to make us wiser and better.”

“The world has a thousand creeds, and ten thousand battle-cries, but only one song of pure and unadulterated love.”

“Give us a song! the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding, When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding.”