We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.