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.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

All writing is a form of prayer.

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