Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house

It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me

Poetry the best words in the best order

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman