In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

A quote about drinking is a joy forever

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.