An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!