Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.