The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.