Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

Love is my religion - I could die for it

I wish to bereave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works

Stop and consider! life is but a day A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and