The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.