Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.