If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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.

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well