The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

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

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

Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

A poet must sing for his own people.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

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.