"My whole life has been a struggle with the world."

"The eye—it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will."

"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."

"My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky."