"I have a great objection to being a Poet."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and have children by a Sonnet."

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree."

"I feel my fate to be a most unhappy one."