All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.