Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.