The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.