No man can have society upon his own terms.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.