Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

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

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.