Her skin was white as leprosy.

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''