True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

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

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound