As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.