“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”

“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk”

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”

“The imagination may be compared to adams dream. He awoke and found it truth.”

“I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little child - Some think me middling, others silly, other foolish - every one thinks he sees my weak side against my will; when in thruth it is with my will - I am content to be thought all this because I have in my own breast so graet a resource. This is one great reason why they like me so; because they can all show to advantage in a room, and eclipese from a certain tact one who is reckoned to be a good Poet - I hope I am not here playing tricks 'to make the angels weep': I think not: for I have not the least contempt for my species; and though it may sound paradoxical: my greatest elevations of Soul leave me every time more humbled - Enough of this - though in your Love for me you will not think it enough.”