Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.