We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.