A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.