Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

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.

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.