Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.