"I am not a metaphysician, but a simple-minded man."

"What we have loved, Others will love, and we will leave behind Powers that will work for them, strong masters there."

"The Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul."

"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science."

"What is a Poet? To whom does he address himself? And what object hath he proposed to himself?"