The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.