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.

The imagination never dies.

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.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

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

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.