"To the solid ground Of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye."

"A Poet, in order to be a good Poet, must be a man of feeling, and a man of thought."

"I am a worshipper of the beautiful, and a lover of the good."

"I have no doubt that, in the present state of society, a Poet, by the very act of writing in metre, does in some degree separate himself from the mass of men, and from their immediate sympathy."

"Strongest minds Are ever those of whom the noisy world Hears least."