Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.
Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.