“My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.”

“one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another”

“Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain,While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!”

“When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".”