By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.