The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

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.

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.