Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

The imagination never dies.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.