Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces