“The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring hea...” — William Cullen Bryant Quote

“The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.”

“The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.”

“Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.”

“An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

“I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.”